Reinhold Schneider
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Luís de Camões
Luís Vaz de Camões is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel, Homer, Virgil and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas...
and Portugal
Portugal
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He had written anti-war poems, which were banned in Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
. Las Casas (1938) had analysed the ways Christians should respond to state oppression, and had criticised Nazi persecution and anti-Semitism; this led to the ban on publishing his works.
During the war associates of Schneider were in the 'Kreisau Circle
Kreisau Circle
The Kreisau Circle was the name the Nazi Gestapo gave to a group of German dissidents centered on the Kreisau estate of Helmuth James Graf von Moltke. The Kreisauer Kreis is celebrated as one of the instances of German opposition to the Nazi regime...
' and the 'Freiburger Konzil' which had links with anti-Nazi resistance. His works were still published "underground", and tracts were distributed to soldiers at the front. Though he was accused of treason by authoring defeatist literature, the war ended before he could be tried.
Works
Apokalypse (1946): an anthology of sonnets.Begegnung und Bekenntnis. Literarische Essays (1963)
Briefe an einen Freund. Mit Erinnerungen von Otto Heuschele
Briefwechsel/Reinhold Schneider, Leopold Zeigler (1960)
Das Inselreich (1936)
Das Leiden des Camões (1930)
Der große Verzicht (1950): drama.
Die Hohenzollern. Tragik und Königtum (1933)
Die Tarnkappe (1951): drama.
Innozenz und Franziskus (1952): drama.
Las Casas vor Karl V. (1938)
Pfeiler im Strom (1958)
Philipp der Zweite (1931)
Tagebuch: 1930-1935
Über Dichter und Dichtung (1953)
Verhüllter Tag, Bekenntnis eines Lebens (1954)
Verpflichtung und Liebe (1964)
Winter in Wien (1958): a diary account of Schneider's stay in Vienna during 1957.
Awards
- Peace Prize of the German Book TradePeace Prize of the German Book TradeThe Peace Prize of the German Book Trade is an international peace prize given yearly at the Frankfurt Book Fair in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt am Main, Germany...
(1956) - Pour le méritePour le MériteThe Pour le Mérite, known informally as the Blue Max , was the Kingdom of Prussia's highest military order for German soldiers until the end of World War I....
(Friedensklasse) (1952) - Honorary doctorates bestowed by the University of FreiburgUniversity of FreiburgThe University of Freiburg , sometimes referred to in English as the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.The university was founded in 1457 by the Habsburg dynasty as the...
and the University of MünsterUniversity of MünsterThe University of Münster is a public university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The WWU is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a society of Germany's leading research universities...
(1946/47) - Droste-Preis (1948)
- Longfellow-Preis (1948)